Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-10
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS.

March g. and is in critical condition.
Philip S. Evans, printer employed in
one of the leading printing houses of Des
of his life, giving full accounts of nara
tives and adventures connected with his
travels, which have extended throughout
the civilized world. The book, when
completed, will contain about 200 pages.
The Grand Lodge of the Iowa Legson
of Honor met in Des Moines March 1st
There were present about $50 delegates,
representing almost every lodge in the
state. Everyone of the eighteen officers
and committeeman of the grand lodge
were in attendance, an occurrence which
thus far in the history of the organization
is the exception. The grand secretary.
It. x. Mills, of Cedar Rapids, submitted
his report, which made complete resume
of the business transactions of the order
for the year, and presented record of
death losses, the beneficiaries and the
cause of death. Since the formation of
the order in 1870, there have been seven
ty-seven assessments upon the member
ship, and from these 176 death claims
of $4,000 each, or 1852, 900 have been
paid out to widows and orphans.
The order has at the present time total
membership of between FIVE and six
thousand persons. 1t is confined by its
charter exclusively to Iowa and it has
thus far been attended with marked
degree of success.
Hon. Hugh NJ Thompson died at
Davenport of paralysis March, 1, aged IS
years. He came to Scott county AZ years
ego and was known throughout the
State. He was member of the Tenth
and eleventh General Assemblies and
later was superintendent of the State
Agricultural College.
Capt. w. ii. Fleming is now, and has
been for some time, at work among the
old records in the State Auditors Office
engaged in preparing evidence to aid
Gen. Belknap in the prosecution of the
war claims of the State of Iowa against
the government.
The board Of regents of the State Uni
gersity March received the designations
Of President Packard, Chancellor Ross,
Profs. p. III. Philbrick, of engineering,
and Susan F. Smith, of English literature.
Prof. Philbrick's resignation was wholly
unexpected. VIM. G. Hammond was
elected chancellor of the law school, and
IN the medical department DR.. Middleton
vas elected to the vacancy caused by DR..
Robertson's death, and Dr. Richard W.
Hill to the chair of physiology held by
Dr.. Middleton. A special meeting will
se held March 30 to consider the election
Of President.
A special from Cherokee says that the
most disastrous fire ever witnessed oc-
CURED there at midnight March 8. Over
$50, 900 worth of property was destroyed.
1t originated in a building occupied by
Kennedy & Co., clothing dealers. The
origin is supposed to be spontaneous
combustion from 9 tons of soft coal stored
in the basement of one of the buildings.
assist and after hard work the fire was
gotten under control Following are the
insurance companies and risks carried:
Liverpool, London and Globe, 81, 900;
Northern, of Aberdeen, 81 ,000 North
British & Mercantile, $1,000; Merchants
of Newark, SO, 900; Continental, $4,000;
Phoenix, $4,000
John Mckenzie shot John Riggs in
Washington township, Adams county,
March 5, the revolver ball entering the
loft nd ont Of tho hack of tho
head, from the effects of which he died
the next day. Both are old and well
known land-owning farmers The diff
Guilty arose from a quarrel over thirty
acres of cornstalks on the farm of Riggs
half Of which had been raised by Nc
Kenzie Riggs refused Mckenzie per-
mission to fodder his cattle in the field.
Mckenzie claims that Riggs was coming
at him with a club. but Riggs friends
claim it TO have been a premcditated
cold blooded murder.
The Clinton and Illinois Bridge Co., of
Clinton filed articles of incorporation
with the Secretary of State. Capital
stock $3.50, 900. Also the Iowa Oil Co., of
Clinton; capital stock SIC, 900; incorpora-
tors Frank Thornburg, A. Stanber, James
P. Gage, @. +. Alden and F. d. Mcdowell,
the object being to prospect for oil or
natural gas The Hyde Park Natural Gas
and Mining Co., of Fairfield, capital
$1,000, 900; incorporated by Thos. H.
Mastin, Samuel M. Jarvis, Roland r.
Conklin, Geo. w. Kellogg and Robert
Trustin. The Minor Creek Cheese Fac
tory Association of Nora Springs; capital
$4,000.
James Lackey, an influential citizen of
Cerro Gordo county, fell from ladder
Feb.s26th, dying from the effects. His
life was insured for $4,000.
John Anderson, a laborer, was killed
March 8, by the caving in of mass of
frozen earth in big cut on West Third
street, Sioux City. Anderson sat down
to rest under an overhanging ledge of
earth and was terribly curushed by the
unexpected falling of the bank. He was
As years old and unmarried.
A special from Algona says: A lady Of
good appearance, wearing eye. glasses
and dressed in black silk, arrived in town
on Tuesday and registered at the Tenant
House as Lady, Cigarmaker's Wife," Of
Detroit, Mich. After making some in
quiry as to the cigar mandatory of this
town, she made visit of inspection
through the concern, cycling the men
closely, and finally spotted one who was
known here as Jim Kellam, and claimed
him as her long-lost husband. After
some parley he accompanied her TO the
Tenant House, and there begged to be
released, but she was memorable. He
cried for an hour or more. and finally
agreed to go with her. She bought two
tickets for ST. Paul, and they departed.
He did not draw his last weeks wages at
the cigar factory She seemed to have
lots of money, She stated that she was
married to this man II years ago, and 2
years ago he left her, since which time